Terry Gross Quotes
When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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You know what they say? They say, 'The print media is dying' - who says that? Well, the media.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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I want to shape the TV screen canvas
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The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
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I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
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Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
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The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
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I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.
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Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
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When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.
